Esha (www.braillecards.org and www.clabil.org) is an initiative by volunteers to make life better for the blind. We use the word blind because its neutral. There is no disability, challenge or special ability attached to this. We are blind means we cannot see. Period. Just like you are sighted means you can see.
You can access the online library directly at www.braillecards.org/audio.htm

Monday, October 26, 2015

Read Fest @ SOIL, Gurgaon – October 2015 during Daanotsav

Read Fest has always been a much
awaited event at SOIL. The posters, mailers and flyers set the festive mood.
Interesting and useful content for the CLABIL Knowledge repository were
gathered parallely by the organizing team. Rooms were blocked to ensure
noiseless recording. The Read Fest Organizer’s guide was a perfect and handy
checklist!!!

As the adage goes “Reading is the
most special of therapies for ending a tension-filled day”, we had active
participation from the students and faculty of SOIL throughout the day. Few of
them carried their own material. Shahid was our creative contributor he recited
Rahim’s Dohe so beautifully and also recorded few of his own poems. I should
say Nitin, Thamba and Saurabh became kids while reading Thenali Raman stories
and Short stories for children with pun and energy. Nidhi and Srinidhi with
their calm and soothing voice recorded the ‘Benefits of breathing’, ‘Surya
Namaskar’ and ‘On-meditation’. The Star
of the Day was Soumyadeep no one could stop him from finishing Vivekananda’s “A
glimpse into his Life”. We had contents for kids, poetry for adults, general
awareness topics, Wellness related material, Travel guides, Leadership and
self-help books recorded for the day. Works of Osho, Robin Sharma and Richard
Templar can now be enjoyed from CLABIL.

Read Fest brought back fresh
memories for few of our participants who read short stories for children. Nitin
who has always loved the bed-time stories from his mother, now enjoyed reading
one for the kids. Soumyadeep who always wanted to read Swami Vivekananda’s work
grabbed the opportunity and finished the book for us. He was concerned if the
audio would inspire someone someday and he would be happy to hear that. Srinidhi
who read the goodness of Yoga brought her own material with meditation mantras
that she follows. Arpita and Priyanka read the Lonely Planet’s travel book on
hill stations in India. The delivery and the narration would make one visualize
the locality through the audio. Pallavi Tandon faculty of SOIL who participates
every year said its fascinating to know your voice could make a difference in a
good way and appreciated the efforts of Esha for adding knowledge through our
voices. On the whole adding 120 files to CLABIL in new and diverse areas was a
pat on the back.